“So you have to be very humble about, wow, if you miss a turn in the road, you can be annihilated.”
-Bill Gates
Here we are, six months away from the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. That was when Gates almost missed a turn in the road before realizing the future wasn’t CD-ROM libraries and proprietary, online commercial networks.
It may be bad timing using Airplane! to make a point about Trump’s tariffs, but economists are concerned about them.
https://econbrowser.com/archives/2025/02/i-guess-i-picked-the-wrong-week
It’s beyond comprehension that Trump continues to insist that an IMPORT TAX will be paid by the exporting country. One option would be for the exporter to accept reduced revenue as a way to maintain export volume:
Will that happen? Not likely, but that’s how it would have to work. One way to consider the tariffs as a good thing, is to think of them as compensating for the further tax cuts to come for those who don’t need them. I’ve convinced myself that was a reason why Biden kept Trump’s first term China tariffs in place.
Trump doesn’t need to invalidate the 22nd Amendment to make the next four years seem like eight.
“I have common sense, OK?” Trump said when pressed what evidence he had to give credence to the blame he piled on the Biden and Obama administrations. “Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/politics/donald-trump-dc-plane-crash/index.html
If I weren’t retired from my former, longtime place of employment, I would be keeping a close watch on the government’s Healthcare Information Technology site. Maybe I should do that anyway, considering the possibility that RFK, Jr. will have control of the Dept. of HHS.
There’s skuttlebutt that this Texas organization of small and rural hospitals wants to negotiate as a single entity with Epic Systems.
Community hospitals and critical access hospitals are the one remaining American market for software that Epic doesn’t dominate. Or, should I say, doesn’t yet dominate.
Epic manages up to 80% of non-military American medical records. If Epic makes a significant gain into the remaining 20%, that will squeeze out my former employer, which has been struggling to regain its footing for almost fifteen years, since the HITECH Act within ARRA went into effect. It’s a bitter irony that Epic runs on software technology created by my former employer, and Epic was a customer of ours during its formative years.
Update: RFK, Jr. is now head of the Department of HHS. If the bird flu becomes communicable between humans, with a fatality rate of up to 50%, say buh-bye to civilization.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/google-maps-to-show-gulf-of-america-after-government-updates.html
Another good reality check on the scam of crapto currencies.
